Maker

Tech by day. Sawdust by night.

Woodworking, home-improvement, and tech-infused builds out of the home shop. Two featured projects below, plus a gallery of selected pieces with links to the full archive on Instagram.

Featured builds

Backyard sauna

Decided I wanted a sauna. Learned what one takes, designed it from scratch, and built it standalone in a month of evenings. Six-person, electric heater, and wired into Home Assistant so I can pre-heat it remotely.

Build time: ~1 month of evenings
Capacity: Six-person
Heat: Electric heater
Type: Standalone outbuilding
Smart home: Home Assistant heater control, Govee temp/humidity sensor, Hue strips

Smart mirror

Built a Raspberry Pi smart mirror in a red oak frame: MagicMirror display behind one-way glass, integrated Google Home audio.

Frame: Red oak
Glass: ~20×30 inches, one-way mirror film
Display: Monitor behind the lower half
Brain: Raspberry Pi, MagicMirror
Audio: Integrated Google Home
Build time: ~6 weeks of evenings

Selected woodwork

A curated cross-section. Each card links to the post on Instagram.

Home lab

The rack in the closet: Hyper-V cluster, redundant domain controllers, segmented networking, and a real backup program. Where patterns get built and broken before they go anywhere near production.

View on Instagram ↗